Surgery with disk prosthesis was not clearly superior to nonsurgical multidisciplinary treatment in patients with chronic low back pain attributed to degenerative disk disease. As an editorialist ...

For many patients with chronic low back pain and degenerative disk disease, surgery may not be the best answer.

The second pattern is the degenerative type, in which the contrast medium is spread throughout the confines of the disk in a flattened, disorganized manner, as shown in Figure 4.

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Vertebral endplates are the interface between spinal discs and vertebrae. Degeneration of the endplates may be a source of back pain.